1078 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 857

same to the County Commissioners of Baltimore County, who,
if they approve the same, are authorized to accept and adopt
it as a general plan for the location of streets, and ways in
said territory, and no avenues, streets, alleys, roads or ways
in Baltimore County, shall hereafter be opened, established or
condemned, nor shall the dedication of the same be adopted
unless the plans of said avenues, streets, alleys, roads or ways,
including the alignment, established grade, proposed disposi-
tion of stormwater drainage and the kind of material and class
of construction shall have been first approved in writing by the
said Roads Engineer of Baltimore County and, further, no
sanitary sewer, storm sewer or water pipes shall be installed
in any avenue, street, alley, road, way or elsewhere in Balti-
more County, unless such proposed installation, including
the character of material to be used and especially the size of
sanitary sewer pipes, storm-water sewer pipes and water pipes
shall have been first approved in writing by the said Roads
Engineer or the Chief Sanitary Engineer of the Baltimore
County Metropolitan District as the County Commissioners
of said County may direct. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Baltimore County shall refuse to accept for record any plat
attempting to lay out property for development in Baltimore
County, that has not been approved by the Roads Engineer
of Baltimore County, as indicated by his endorsement on said
plat, to the end and intent that said Roads Engineer shall be
able effectively to control the general plan of streets, avenues
and highways as hereinbefore provided.

601A. Any person, firm or corporation who shall hereafter
open, grade, pave or establish any avenue, street, alley, road
or way within the limits of Baltimore County, as herein de-
fined, without having first obtained the approval in writing of
the Roads Engineer of Baltimore County, and any person, firm
or corporation who shall install in any avenue, street, alley,
road, way or elsewhere in Baltimore County, any sanitary
sewer, storm-water sewer or water pipes, without having first
obtained the approval in writing of the Roads Engineer of
Baltimore County or the Chief Sanitary Engineer of the Balti-
more County Metropolitan District, as the said County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County may direct, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall
be subject to a fine of not less than five hundred dollars
($500. 00) nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars
($2, 500. 00) in the discretion of the Court, and each clay's
work without the written approval as herein provided shall
be deemed a separate offense.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That a new section be and
the same is hereby added to Article 3 of the Code of Public